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I tried Zenclora, a super-fast Linux distro with zero bloat – and one truly special feature

I tried Zenclora, a super-fast Linux distro with zero bloat – and one truly special feature

Published by skeptic

Jack Wallen / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Zenclora is a high-performing, beautiful OS. Based on Debian, this distro uses a tweaked GNOME DE. You can download and install Zenclora for free. Typically, when I think of Linux distributions that are built for those without experience, I think of Linux Mint, Zorin OS, elementaryOS, Ubuntu, and Pop!_OS. It’s rare that I would consider an unknown distribution, especially one that doesn’t include a GUI frontend for the package manager. Also: 7 things every Linux beginner should know before downloading their first distro But there’s always room for change, and Zenclora makes a good case for itself. What is Zenclora? Zenclora is a Debian-based Linux distribution that uses a customized version of the GNOME desktop, a unique package manager called Zen, and also includes the usual Debian packages (such as the APT package manager). Zenclora enjoys the stability of both Debian and GNOME to create a desktop operating system you can depend on. But …

We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS

We Could Hitch a Ride to Unknown Frontiers on Super-Fast Interstellar Objects Like 3I/ATLAS

Published by José Betancourt

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million miles. Scientists have been closely monitoring the object — which is largely believed to be a natural comet and only the third of its kind to have been directly observed in the solar system — as it continued on its highly eccentric trajectory. The encounter with Earth, however, turned out to be a bit of an anticlimax, as Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, who has long championed the far-fetched theory that the object may be an alien spacecraft, lamented in a blog post titled “3I/ATLAS Ignores Earth.” Instead of doing something you might expect of aliens during their closest approach to Earth, it simply cruised on by. While hopes that we were just visited by an alien race diminish even further, Loeb made an interesting pivot in a follow-up piece, proposing that other objects like 3I/ATLAS could be useful for our future attempts to explore beyond our solar system. “The Voyager Golden Records, containing a time capsule of …